The first time I decided to dip my toe into solo travel I was working in a software company as an intern software engineer and after a year of watching the days fly by, reading blogs of other people out exploring the world I decided that I’d had enough and I wanted a bit of … →

While it’s nice to give a day by day, blow by blow account of all that happened to me on my kayaking trip I feel that I can often get repetitive and I might also miss out on some of the contrasting and highlighting events that transpired so I thought that the format of posing myself … →

Since I first wrote an account of skydiving a third of the way through my training where I was still terrified of the concept of jumping from a moving place 15,000 feet up in the air I thought I’d recount a fonder experience near the end of my training with 20 jumps under my belt.  … →

Using a friends GoPro, I managed to get some footage of my trip, stitch it all together and hopefully the result will give you a good taste of what it was like to paddle across Ireland for 9 days.  

After not sleeping much the night before due to excitement and nerves, I woke up and double checked I had everything prepared that was on my list and that I hadn’t forgotten anything. My mother arrived, and we quickly tied the shiny new Kayak to the roof of the car, making sure it wasn’t going … →

The Idea A few years ago I’d read about a guy who had gone down the danube on a home made raft and camped along the way as he went. Since I was a child I’ve always loved water sports and had kayaked for a couple of years so I researched the rivers of Ireland … →